Nate is an American marathon runner who has taken the time to share his training logs over his career at nateruns.blogspot.com. Nate does a wonderful job explaining why he does what he does. He’s self effacing and the first to be critical of any mistake he’s made in his training.

Nate finished seventh at the 2008 Olympic Trials, in a star-studded field. He has a marathon PR of 2:14.

Nate started running seriously in 8th grade and learned by his senior year in high school that high mileage worked for him.

In this interview he talks about his interpretation of Renato Canova’s training system and how he’s implemented that into his training. He also discusses his use of workouts like Aussie Quarters and the Mona Fartlek.

This interview runs a few minutes longer than most for the simple fact that I had so many questions for Nate.

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Lee represented Australia in three different Olympics.He broke Ron Clarke’s Australian national record in the 5k, a record that stood for 33 years.He then moved up to the marathon where he ran a personal best of 2:09.

In 2013 Lee finished 15th in the Boston Marathon, running 2:17 at age 40.

Lee is the founder of the Boulder Track Club and coach of the reigning women’s US cross country champion, Laura Thweatt.

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Bob Kennedy joins us for the third episode of the Run Faster Podcast. Bob won both the high school national championship, which was then called the Kinney National Championship, and won the NCAA Division I Cross Country Champions as both a freshman and a senior.

Bob Kennedy was the first non-African to break 13 minutes for 5k. Many of you may remember when he took the lead of the penultimate lap of the 5,000m at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, GA. Some runners may have even raced in the shoe Nike named after him, the Zoom Kennedy.

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Dathan Ritzenhein is a three-time Olympian who is working hard to make his fourth Olympic team in 2016. Prior to becoming one of the best professional runners in the U.S. and in the world (with a marathon best of 2:07:47 and a half-marathon best of 60:00) he won both the Footlocker and NCAA titles.

He twice won the Footlocker Cross Country Championships in high school, beating Alan Webb and Ryan Hall his senior year. In 2003, he won the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship in a brutal dual with Ryan Hall.

I got to know Dathan and his wife Kalin during my time as an assistant coach at the University of Colorado. Dathan is one of the toughest, most focused athletes I’ve been around. It was a pleasure to reconnect with him in this interview.

Thank you for your time, Dathan, and I wish you the best in your quest to make a fourth Olympic team.

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Jorge Torres joins me for the first episode of the Run Faster Podcast.

Jorge won the Footlocker Cross Country Championship in 1998 as a high school athlete and went on to the win the NCAA Division I Championship in 2002 as a collegiate athlete. Only five men have won both championships (Bob Kennedy, Adam Goucher, Dathan Ritzenhein and Edward Cheserek being the other four).

I got to know Jorge during my time as an assistant coach at the University of Colorado where he was an athlete. I’m fortunate to count Jorge as a friend and, as you’ll hear in this interview, he’s both serious and playful, a mixture that I believe helped him take his training seriously when he had to, but also allowed him to relax when it was time to rest.

Thanks, Jorge, for your time and for a great interview. Listen below or go to the iTunes page. If you like the show, please leave a review on the iTunes page. Thanks!

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